
Taxonomic Information
List of Utetheisa Hübner, [1819] 1816 known from India.
Utetheisa antennata (Swinhoe, 1893). India (Nicobar Islands).
Utetheisa lotrix (Cramer, 1779). India (Throughout India, Andaman & Nicobar, Chhattisgarh).
Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758). India (Andaman, Throughout India, Lakshadweep).
Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907. India (North India to Rajasthan, Sikkim, Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Orissa, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Throughout India including Madhya Pradesh, Bihar).
Utetheisa (Pitasila) assamica De Vos, 2007. India (NE India, Assam).
Utetheisa (Pitasila) leucospilota (Moore, 1877), India (Andaman & Nicobar Islands).
Utetheisa (Pitasila) selecta (Walker, 1854). India (Andamans).
Utetheisa (Pitasila) varians (Walker, 1854). India (NE India, NW Himalayas, West Bengal, Sikkim).
Utetheisa (Pitasila) variolosa (Felder & Rogenhofer, [1869] 1874). India (Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
Similar species: Utetheisa lotrix and Utetheisa pulchella. HW markings assist in separation. Best separated by male genitalia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utetheisa_pulchella for pulchella
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utetheisa_lotrix for lotrix
As per Moths of Borneo, the diagnosis for separating pulchelloides and lotrix is mentioned below.
http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-6/arctiinae/arctiinae-7-2.php for lotrix.
Diagnosis. This and the next species are most reliably separated by examination of the male genitalia. There are differences in the male antennae (Roepke, 1941; Robinson, 1971) and also a usually reliable difference in the forewing: there is a red patch between the more elongate pair of black marginal marks at the tornus and the subdorsal black spot of the submarginal in pulchelloides that is lacking in lotrix.
State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Assam | |||||||||||||
Bihar | |||||||||||||
Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
Delhi | |||||||||||||
Goa | |||||||||||||
Gujarat | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Haryana | |||||||||||||
Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | |||||||||||||
Kerala | |||||||||||||
Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | |||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | 2 | ||||||||||||
Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
West Bengal | 3 | ||||||||||||
Total | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907 – Heliotrope Moth: Heliotropium indicum, Tournefortia argentea (Boraginaceae)(Robinson et al. 2010).
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OD: Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 19 (111): 239; TL: Chagos Is., Peros Banhos
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http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-6/arctiinae/arctiinae-7-1.php
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https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/125231-Utetheisa-pulchelloides
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http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/arct/pulch.html [accessed 07 August 2017]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907 – Heliotrope Moth. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.83. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/utetheisa-pulchelloides, accessed 2025/03/18.